Parking
the hell you face after getting your AutoMobile through Street Traffic
http://www.livablestreets.com/streetswiki/parking-policy
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research by Donald Shoup of UCLA, and mimiced by Transportation Alternatives in NYC.
- Video interview http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/dr-shoup-parking-guru/ - survey in So Ho of drivers stopped at red lights, found 29% were looking for parking.
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Street Parking should be more expensive than garage parking (at least during the day). Making it cheap results in increased Street Traffic from people cruising for parking. Use Dynamic Street Parking Pricing varying by time to manage demand, so that there's always 1 free space per block.
- and money should be put back into the Neighborhood where it's collected: Shoup suggests offering this option to each Neighborhood.
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